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Bobby Robson was a true gentleman and man of football. His defiance and spirited fight against cancer typified his attitude in life that he applied so well to professional football. What better an example of this than the World Cup 1990. With our wonderful media truly on Robson's back, our troops went out to Italy with a manager who would always back his players. When a player had a bad spell or couldn't find the net, he was the one always on their side and had a superb way of bringing the right players in and out at the right time to get results. He also liked his sides to play attacking football with flare. Always favouring attacking wing play giving his teams width, Bobby Robson's managerial career was incredible and everywhere he went he was liked and respected. From Ipswich to PSV to Newcastle at club level this was a true legend of football that will be missed in the football world. Personally, Bobby Robson was my favourite England manager because he had 2 World Cups where England were very competitive in Mexico '86 and Italia '90. Alex Ferguson always says there are too many outspoken journalists talking about something they don't really know enough about. As did Brian Clough. For me, one of the best examples of this was the build up to England getting to the semi-finals against Germany in 1990. The media criticised Bobby's men of being defensive and negative. However that team had a fit Paul Gascoigne in and a super sharp Gary Lineker which meant that any team could be threatened with super attacking quality.

Bobby Robson - we all will miss you, thanks for some legendary footballing memories.

In the same week as Phil Hughes twittered about being dropped, it's not surprising that some of these spoilt sportsmen are washing thier linen in public via the internet. However it is not a channel of communication that can be used by a player directly, surely the player must always communicate via the club they work for and with their approval.

Interesting word of mouth though...

In the situation below, we had the tendencies of this offense down to whenever they went to this Power-I look, they only hit 2 particular areas of attack. Because of this, we felt that the BEST defense in our arsenal against this set was "6 Under Will Line", which is just a strong side loaded zone (6), with an Under front and putting the bubble LB on the line....this is essentially a 6-1 defense.

42 Nickel Installation clips from a few years ago as an example of building the foundation into the season.

The scripted TEAM sessions are probably the most relevant bits to watch as the speed and efficiency of getting plays ran and also reinforcing run-fits of your defense.

This is just lagniappe, but here are more practice clips;